This is my latest painting (as of Dec 2025). The colors are from locally gathered and processed pigments. One color we don't have is a good green. I can get a gray-green from one of the local stones, but to get the shades of green in this painting, I used a very small amount of primary yellow and green. I buy those pigments as powders and make a 1/2 tube of paint, and then mix that into the paint from the stone. Another pigment I outsource for oils is titanium white. Limestone makes a great white in watercolor, but there is nothing here to make white in oil paints. So anyway, this is one of my paintings using locally foraged pigments. I'd love to see your work, too, so please share!

Hi there! If you're new here, please introduce yourself and select the 'General Discussion' category. I just uploaded a pdf with the supply list to the group and also attached it here on this message. It's Dec. 13, 2025 and the holidays are upon us now. It's going to be hectic for a few weeks. So I'm not going to get started with the tutorials until after the New Year begins. I'll start by uploading the first video on Jan. 7 (Unboxing & Going Over the Paint-making Supplies), and then follow up with a Zoom meeting on the 11th if there's anyone here to join me. In the meantime, I'd love to learn more about you :) And if you have any questions about me, please ask! When I get the next chance, I'll add some images of the artwork I've made using my homemade paints and tell a little backstory - these posts will be in the Sharing category. Oh, and if you join the Premium level where I ship all of the supplies to you, I'll also include a box of rocks to get started with :)